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Definition of Furphies
1. furphy [n] - See also: furphy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Furphies
Literary usage of Furphies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "Over There" with the Australians by R. Hugh Knyvett (1918)
"One morning the camp was all agog and the air thick with "furphies." We were
ordered to get ready for embarkation, and speculation was rife as to our ..."
2. Letters from France by Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (1917)
"After all, these ' furphies ' make life worth living in the trenches," as one of
our men said to me the other day. All the Germans, in a certain part of the ..."
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